Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

RBS; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS is seeking a Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer to help design, implement, and maintain hardware solutions for the mainframe environment. You will apply automation and observability to drive testing, live deployment, and secure, resilient operations.

You will collaborate with Product Owners to roadmap and manage the lifecycle of infra products, delivering self-service options and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in Mainframe Infrastructure support.
• Mainframe hardware configuration and automation scripting (Python or Shell).
• Familiar with infrastructure as code tooling and modern engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile working practices and Release Train/feature team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and engineering of intuitive, self-service infrastructure products.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and lifecycle management.
• Contribute to infra as code delivery and automation initiatives.
• Support pattern or product issues and coordinate with vendors for infra services.

Skills

Mainframe infrastructure

Python

Shell scripting

IaC tooling

Agile

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

DASD

SAN/FICON

GDPS

Job description

Join us as a Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

• You’ll collaborate in building the best possible hardware solutions for the Mainframe environment and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• Improve our products as you apply automation to provide testing and a route to live
• This is your chance to share thought leadership and best practice across the bank, while you’re developing solutions
  

What you’ll do

As an Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team’s products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

You’ll also:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you’ll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Mainframe Infrastructure support, Mainframe hardware configuration and automation scripting such as Python or Shell. You’ll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain

In addition, you’ll have:

• Experience of designing and configuring Mainframe Hardware solutions including DASD, SAN/FICON connectivity and network infrastructure
• Experience of planning and delivering hardware migrations between different generations of IBM z Mainframes
• Strong understanding of GDPS architectures and operations, including processor management, DASD replication and Disaster Recovery automation
• Technical leadership experience and subject matter expertise
• Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience in testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

16/11/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First